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Catherine Forrest's avatar

This made me so mad, but not surprised. I think about this kind of thing as society goes more and more "cashless." The banks have more control all the time.

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Dane Benko's avatar

ConEd mis-metered my apartment the first month I moved in, charged me $4000, auto-withdrew it from my account where I had only $1800, low for me because, you know, I had just moved and paid two months rent, moving costs, and so forth, and the bank charged me an overdraft fee.

I got things sorted with ConEd. I got things sorted with the bank. I spent about a week filing a "Yes this happened ask ConEd here's the number no I am not committing fraud" paperwork with the bank. In the end my account was cleared back to its correct number and no harm no foul.

Except the overdraft fees the bank charged during the week it took to clear this issue up.

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